Prideful

2.0

Word count: 1159
I've found a new way to write chapters, so hopefully they'll be a little longer now.
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Patton moved around beginning to wake up. The first thing he realized was his bed was quite hard, and it was extremely bright. He reached around a bit trying to find his glasses to get his bearings. He grabbed the round spectacles and placed them on his nose before looking around confused.

He was still on the roof with a muted yellow blanket lazily tossed over him. The sun was rising in a brilliant show of colors that made the sunset from last night look like nothing. Patton knew not to stare directly at the sun for long so he looked to his side and saw Janus curled up still asleep.

He would've to look peaceful if it weren't for the grimace on his face. He moved around a bit distressed like he was having a bad dream. Patton shook him trying to wake him up.
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Janus couldn't move or scream. His mouth was sewn shut and he was chained to the ground with glowing orange chains. He struggled to try to escape as a tall figure walked closer. It was Virgil but he didn't look right.

He had a vague imprint around his neck and blood ran down his chin. His eyes were completely black and he looked extremely angry. He opened his mouth to speak, and more blood flowed out as he screamed, "You did this to me!"

Janus wants to respond that it was Damion's fault not his, but he couldn't open his mouth. Virgil stalked forward before yelling, "You've left so many sides to suffer without as much as an explanation!"

Janus began crying and his vision blurred in one eye. Virgil was now almost face to face with Janus before he yelled, "Patton is depressed! Logan doesn't know how to express himself! Creativity is split, and his halves hate each other! And Curiosity is dead! All because you're weak!" Janus continued crying as he heard the distant cry of his name.

"...Janus..."

".. Janus.."

".Janus."
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Curiosity killed the Curiosity. Am I just being mean? Maybe.
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"Janus!" Janus sat bolt upright in front of Patton who seemed extremely concerned.

"Are you alright kiddo, you were having a bad dream?" Patton said with genuine concern.

"I was..." Janus slightly curls up as he wiped his eye. He expected there to be tears but surprisingly it was dry. It was hard to process what had happened in his dream. Was it really all his fault?

"Do you want to talk about it?" Patton asked. Patton was rubbing circles on Janus' back to keep him calm.

"Oh sure, I would love to explain a dream that even I need time to process, and then for you to barely understand what I'm talking about because it is hard to explain dreams," Janus said dramatically.

Patton got the hint and said, "Alright then, we should at least get off the roof and go get some breakfast before training." Janus hadn't even realized they were on the roof, but looking now the sight was beautiful if you looked past the large barbed wire wall. The forest didn't even look that spooky from here.

"Yeah let's go get some breakfast."
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Remy walked through the streets that were surprisingly crowded for 8 am in the morning. His hand was tightly clamped around Emile's wrist dragging him along. He would sooner give up Starbucks than let his husband get hurt by one of the thugs in Remus' village.

He got a few stares, but he glared right back. The stares were probably from the fact that Emile was wearing a pink sundress and a flower crown. It definitely wasn't something you'd see every day in this place.

The couple finally approached a tall building that appeared bigger than it actually was. It was almost against the village's wall, but it had a small backyard that was currently invisible.

Remy knocked on the door impatiently. They only had to wait a few seconds before Logan opened the door. This threw Remy completely off guard, "Logan what are you doing here?"

"I'm here because- wait how do I know you not being controlled by Damion, say something only Remy would know," this left Remy even more flabbergasted, were they hiding from Damion too?

"Uh..." Remy thought for a bit, "Last night you had a wet dream about Remus where he-"

"Okay, that's enough! Your Remy!" Logan said clearly embarrassed. Logan moved out of the way and let Remy and Emile in. The couple then quickly disappeared down the basement stairs, and Logan returned to his work.
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Virgil was dragging his feet as he slowly walked through the castle. He'd skipped breakfast instead of opting for a black coffee that he was now drinking slowly. Tim was nowhere to be found, probably off trying to formulate a plan. Speaking of Tim, Virgil was currently thinking about what he'd let slip he used to be a side called Curiosity. Virgil wondered how that worked, consider Tim was dead and Thomas was still curious. He'd have to ask him later.

Virgil stopped when he saw Roman sitting at a desk in what appeared to be a library. He seemed relaxed, but in an odd kinda way. Virgil wanted to check on him. He tried to sneak up Roman, but he turned around before Virgil even reached him. Roman smiled, "Ah, V, just the person I wanted to see!" Roman clapped his hands together and stood up before walking over Virgil. He placed a small kiss on Virgil's for head and Virgil smiled.

"Why did you want to see me?" He asked quietly.

"I think I've found the perfect way to announce our wedding to the imagination outside our kingdom!"

Roman seemed really happy, but Virgil was a bit worried. Tim had told him Patton and Logan were staying on Remus' side of the imagination. He wasn't sure how they'd react to this when he would try and join them later. "Tonight after our date, we'll announce our marriage by writing it in the sky!" Roman smiled even wider slightly jumping around, "Isn't that romantic!"

Virgil did have to admit, if everything else was fine that would've been extremely romantic, but alas, everything else wants fine. Though Virgil knew not to upset Roman right now, "Yes that sounds extremely Romantic, I would love to do that with you."

Roman gave Virgil another forehead kiss before running off while saying, "Great! Now I gotta tell Damion!" Virgil frowned, this may have just made things a whole lot harder.
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Here's some information that doesn't fit into the story, but I think is still important.

Andy is Aro, and DW is Aro Ace. They're in a relationship as best friends.

Tim is agender, the only reason for this is in my mind ghosts are genderless.

Damion is a pan-gender but uses he/him pronouns.